On Monday, Feb. 18, weekday bus service between Rochester and UNH began with the Wildcat Transit’s new Route 125/Rochester Express. Seven runs will be offered daily, Monday through Friday. The ride between Rochester and UNH takes about 35 minutes. The one-way fare is $1.50; passengers with valid UNH student or employee IDs ride free. 
A celebration of the Route 125/Rochester Express’s inaugural run was held Monday when the bus arrived at the bus shelter on Main Street near Thompson Hall.
Marty Scarano, UNH director of Athletics; Dr. Stephen Hardy and Donna Hardy, parents of Nate Hardy; Sgt. Christy Gardner, retired U.S. Army sergeant, member of UNH sled hockey team and U.S. National Team; Keely Ames, Northeast Passage operations coordinator; Dot Sheehan, UNH senior associate athletic director of external relations and Operation Hat Trick founder; and Moxie the dog. Photo courtesy Gil Talbot. |
Operation Hat Trick (OHT), UNH's athletics department and Northeast Passage (NEP) announced Monday the creation of the NEP Athlete Opportunity Fund, a collaborative partnership that will be funded in part by OHT to provide supplemental programmatic support for recruiting, training and coaching of student-athletes with...
In her office in Kingsbury Hall, Erin Bell is explaining her research. “When you go to a doctor, they don’t just look at you. They do blood work; they run tests. Bridge instrumentation and testing is almost like an EKG of a bridge. You gather data, and looking at that data you can tell if something needs to be done prior to a collapse.”
Bell delivers this explanation with infectious enthusiasm. An associate professor in the College of Engineering and Physical Sciences (CEPS), Bell was chosen in 2007 as only the second-ever UNH civil engineering faculty member to receive a prestigious National Science Foundation Faculty Early Career Development award. Since then, she’s been hard at work on her project, “Integrating Structural Health Monitoring, Intelligent Transportation Systems and Model Updating Into a Bridge Condition Assessment...
Gail Fensom works in a laboratory. But, instead of pouring over beakers of bubbling concoctions, her experiments are human.
"I would consider myself a teacher-researcher," says Fensom, assistant professor of English and director of the first-year writing program at UNH Manchester. "So my research basically is my students. My classrooms are my research labs and my students are my subjects."
Fensom has used what she's learned in her classrooms at UNH Manchester to help college students pick up the writing and reading fundamentals they may have missed along the way. Her passion for her craft has led her to spread this mission of helping students to be prepared for college and careers throughout the state and nationally.
Fensom started teaching at the University of New Hampshire in 1986 and is presently the director of the college’s first year writing program. Throughout the years, she's used her classes as research to figure out what made students unprepared time...
U.S. lodging executives were more optimistic about general business conditions in January than the prior month, according to the UNH Lodging Executives Sentiment Index (LESI) for the current month ending January 2013. The index increased from 53.8 in December 2012 to 61.7 in January 2013.
“This increase results from lodging executives’ positive opinions of the present general business conditions for their properties, as well as their positive sentiment for how they view general business conditions 12 months in the future. Expectations about room reservations during the same 12-month period also moved upward,” said Nelson Barber, associate professor of hospitality management, who manages the index.
Twenty-seven percent of lodging executives indicated current business conditions were good, an improvement from 15 percent last period, while 67 percent indicated conditions were normal, down from 69 percent during the same period. Seven percent of the...
Whether you are at home, at work, in a public place, or on the UNH campus, it’s likely you are often in areas served by natural gas pipelines. Across the U.S., more than 2.2 million miles of pipelines and mains deliver natural gas for use by residential, commercial and industrial customers.
Like all forms of energy, natural gas must be handled properly. Despite an excellent safety record, a gas leak caused by damage to a pipeline may pose a hazard and has the potential to ignite.
On the Durham campus there are two underground gas piping networks beneath the roads and grounds of campus. EcoLine™, UNH’s landfill gas-to-energy project, delivers processed landfill gas to campus for use in our two gas turbines via a 12” underground transmission pipeline beginning 12.6 miles away at the Waste Management Turnkey Landfill in Rochester and terminating at the central heating plant on Library Way. There is also a distribution network of smaller diameter underground natural...
Abusive bosses who target employees with ridicule, public criticism, and the silent treatment not only have a detrimental effect on the employees they bully, but they negatively impact the work environment for the co-workers of those employees who suffer from “second-hand” or vicarious abusive supervision, according to new research from UNH.
In the first ever study to investigate vicarious supervisory abuse, Paul Harvey, associate professor of organizational behavior at UNH, and his research colleagues Kenneth Harris and Raina Harris from Indiana University Southeast and Melissa Cast from New Mexico State University find that vicarious supervisory abuse is associated with job frustration, abuse of other coworkers, and a lack of perceived organizational support beyond the effects of the abusive supervisor.
The research is presented in the Journal of Social Psychology in the article “An Investigation of Abusive Supervision, Vicarious Abuse Supervision, and...
NH SBDC launches its exporting e-courses at its advisory board meeting. From left to right: Tim Dining, Greenerd Press & Machine Co.; Janice Gregory, NH SBDC; Liz Gray, NH DRED; Erle Pierce, Pierce Public Affairs; Fred Kocher, Kocher & Co.; Maura Weston, MM Weston & Assoc.; Jonathan Smith, TD Bank; Mary Collins, NH SBDC; Scott Merrick, Office of U.S. Sen. Jeanne Shaheen; Adria Bagshaw, W.H. Bagshaw; Jason Cannon, NH SBDC; Paul Creme, Hamblett & Kerrigan; Heidi Edwards Dunn, NH SBDC; and Greta Johansson, U.S. Small Business Administration. |
The UNH New Hampshire Small Business Development Center (NH SBDC) has launched two e-courses on exporting as part of its new exporting portal.
“Basics of...
A program sponsored by the UNH Library’s New Hampshire Library of Traditional Jazz will present the largely untold stories of jazz and the blues as part of the 2012-13 University Dialogue, whose topic this year is “Live Free or Die? A University Dialogue on Freedom and Responsibility. ”
Coordinated by the Discovery Program and Bill Ross of the Library’s Milne Special Collections and Archives, "Live Free or Swing: A Peoples History of Jazz and Blues” is being facilitated by musician and educator, T. J. Wheeler, who has over 35 years of experience as both a performer and as an artist in residence.
The Wednesday series dates and topics are as follows:
Feb. 20, The...
Abused children who are removed from their homes are likely to be placed voluntarily in the homes of other family members instead of other placement arrangements, according to new research from the Carsey Institute at UNH.
The new research is presented in the Carsey Institute brief “Informal Kinship Care Most Common Out-of- Home Placement After an Investigation of Child Maltreatment” conducted by Wendy Walsh, research associate professor of sociology at the UNH Crimes against Children Research Center and research associate at the Carsey Institute.
Walsh looked at placement patterns nationally in both rural and urban areas. She evaluated whether abused children were placed in foster care, formal kinship care (state has legal custody and places the child with a family member), informal kinship care (a parent voluntarily places a child with a family member), or group homes or other out-of-home settings, such as emergency...
Piscataqua Region Estuaries Partnership (PREP), a University of New Hampshire-based organization, has received a donation of $10,000 from NextEra Energy Seabrook Station for water monitoring and research efforts. This donation comes on the heels of PREP’s 2013 State of Our Estuaries Report, which called for increased investment in the data collection (monitoring) and research being conducted in the Great Bay and Hampton Seabrook estuaries.
“Funds for data collection are extremely limited, and it is more important than ever to have complete data sets from areas throughout our watershed to help provide a clear understanding of the health of our estuaries. This investment from Next Era will have a significant impact in terms of the information we can provide back to our partners and communities as a tool for local decision-making,” says Rachel Rouillard, PREP’s executive director.
NextEra’s donation will go to sustaining current...
More than 35 summer camps and other outdoor programs will share their summer offerings with Seacoast-area parents and youth at the University of New Hampshire’s annual Summer Camp and Outdoor Job Fair Thursday, Feb. 14, 2013, in the Granite State Room of the Memorial Union Building.
From 4 to 6 p.m., representatives from a range of programs will be available to meet with parents and prospective campers.
Earlier that day, employers from these programs – which include nonprofit outdoor and environmental agencies, commercial outfitters, summer camps, and international travel companies – will meet with potential employees.
The job fair runs from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., also in the Granite State Room. Employers will recruit life guards, nurses, wilderness trip leaders, and specialists in arts and crafts, drama, ropes courses, rock climbing, paddling, backpacking, mountain biking, and more. Some employers conduct on-the-spot interviews, and prospective...
The Peter T. Paul College of Business and Economics is pleased to announce that professor Michael D. Goldberg will be awarded the Todd H. Crockett Professor of Economics on Friday, Feb. 15. Dean Daniel Innis cordially invites the entire UNH community to come and celebrate Goldberg’s award and achievements.
Goldberg has been on the business school faculty since 1991 and is a senior research associate at the Institute for New Economic Thinking. He is co-creator, along with Roman Frydman, of Imperfect Knowledge Economics. His columns on asset-price fluctuations and policy reform have been published by leading newspapers in more than 50 countries. His bestselling books, “Imperfect Knowledge Economics: Exchange Rates and Risk” (Princeton University Press, 2007) and “Beyond Mechanical Markets: Asset Price Swings, Risk, and the Role of the State” (Princeton University Press, 2011) both co-authored with Frydman have been translated into multiple languages. ...
2013 Chinese New Year Gala sponsored by the Confucius Institute at UNH took place Feb. 4 in the Johnson Theater. Seven performers with Chengdu University were joined by seven local artists from China for the evening festivities, which included singing, dancing, musical performances, and martial arts.
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The Office of the Senior Vice Provost for Engagement and Academic Outreach will be conducting an internal search for a UNH faculty member to fill the position of executive director for Engagement and Faculty Development. This is a full time appointment reporting directly to the Senior Vice Provost for Engagement and Academic Outreach. A position description with qualifications and expectations for the position are attached.
This internal search will follow a process similar to other successful internal searches recently conducted.
Interested candidates should submit a vita, a letter describing their qualifications, interest and experience addressing the major position responsibilities as described in the job description and the names and contact information for 3-5 references by March 1, 2013. A search committee will evaluate and recommend 2-3 candidates for consideration by the campus community. Finalists will be asked to participate in an on-...
